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I totally blew it here. I had the camera set at ISO 1600. I don't know how/why that happened. Anyway, I used some gaussian blur to reduce the grain. I didn't bother doing too much else, since I didn't think it was worth it. Does anyone have a good grain reduction routine in PS?

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Not a bad shot considering your problems. I usually find that my camera goes the other way to ISO 100. Too many buttons and too much feedback to handle in the heat of the moment :-)

You should have seen us today chasing a Downy Woodpecker through very thick willows with 600mm focal length and the bird about fifteen feet. I'm cussing that I can't find it in the viewfinder and my wife is telling me it flew to the right. All I can hear is go right, go right, no the other right. I missed the shot!

Cal

Nice shot - Cal

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Nice image Chris. Not as grainy as i would have expected with an ISO that high!

I have had my camera set wrong many times, and blown some really great shots (or what could have been great shots). I usually forget to set the camera back to my preferred settings after I have changed it for some reason. Then, I blow a shot and figure it out just after the chance is gone, when I am looking at the blown shot on the LCD!

I have been using a Photoshop plugin, and stand alone package called NeatImage to do any noise reduction that I need. It is an AMAZING program! You can download it for free and try it out. I tried it and immediately bought it!